Example sentences of "it for what " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strip away the insincerity and the hype from the music business and see it for what it is , a jungle . |
| 2 | If you are paying a little more for the food you should enjoy it for what it is — avoid recipes which suggest such things as stuffing breasts of chicken with Parma ham mousse , then wrapping them in smoked salmon and poaching in wine before serving with a cream sauce . |
| 3 | Horst Urban , Continental 's boss , is unimpressed with Pirelli 's elaborate scheme and rightly sees it for what it is : a takeover . |
| 4 | If we can recognize it for what it is , then we are well on the road to dealing with it , and being able to put it behind us . |
| 5 | ‘ No one knows more than me how much I owe to this country , how much I vow to give back to it for what it has done to me , ’ he said . |
| 6 | A piece of rope was tied to it but the knot was difficult to undo and , after fiddling with it for what felt like hours , he still could n't pry it loose . |
| 7 | ‘ It is not a birth-mark and , if I had rid myself of my preconceptions , I would have recognized it for what it is , on superficial examination of the subject . ’ |
| 8 | But behind some of the peeling doors painted in council colours , there burned ambition that would have surprised the rest of the street had it recognised it for what it was . ’ |
| 9 | It would do me no harm to accept it for what it is : an idiosyncrasy of chub , and stop trying to find out why . |
| 10 | ‘ When I play , some days it 's off , some days it 's on , and I take it for what it is . |
| 11 | ‘ I think most of you are in it for what you can get . |
| 12 | But instead of meeting each problem separately and assessing it for what it is , the anorexic thinks she has a master-plan , designed to solve them all at one stroke . |
| 13 | After the case , Mr Fox said : ‘ I 'm glad he 's gone to prison , he deserves it for what he did . |
| 14 | We want to change the whole concept of how dance music is appreciated , so that people can see it for what it is . |
| 15 | As a result , we now have a very detailed picture of the lifestyle of the cuckoo and can recognise it for what it is : not a case of divine creation , but a superb example of the complex adaptations that occur in the intricate interrelationship . |
| 16 | Generally , with education , I did n't recognize it for what it was . |
| 17 | Still , taking it for what it is , I can report that it is on the whole satisfactorily performed , due mainly to the merits of the soloists : Barbara Schlick 's soprano rings out finely in the wonderful air with cello , ‘ What passion can not Music raise or quell ’ ( I give titles in the familiar English rather than the German used here , of course ) , and again in her paean of the organ , though in the final chorus the sense and the noble simplicity of the solo soprano in turn with the choir , a real piece of English eccentricity , somehow becomes merely odd in German . |
| 18 | Although the butler had never said or intimated anything untoward , Michael had grown up with prejudice long enough to recognize it for what it was . |
| 19 | With the " novel " element displacing to a greater or lesser extent the " detective " element , you will probably find that you need a less complicated murder to be the subject of the logical deduction which will eventually reveal it for what it is . |
| 20 | There was a coldness about the house that showed it for what it was — a rental for two people whose life together had hardly begun . |
| 21 | But now they knew it for what it was . |
| 22 | For , through that form of criticism , students can be freed from dependence on their own discipline , being able to see it for what it is , warts and all . |
| 23 | They have enough inner strength not to feel threatened by the demand for child-like dependency implicit in tears ; they will recognize it for what it is , a temporary rather than a permanent threat to their autonomy . |
| 24 | Only if it is made strange or different do we see it for what it really is . |
| 25 | Then she knew it for what it was . |
| 26 | Example 44 is from ‘ Vissi d'arte ’ in Tosca at a point where the orchestra plays the melody ( small notes ) while the singer weaves a web of narration in different ways — reciting , joining the orchestral melody , forming a decorative counter-melody , etc. — all within the space of a few bars : There is great skill here , yet nobody seems to have recognized it for what it really is — the solution for preserving melodic and formal unity while at the same time using words with freedom and flexibility . |
| 27 | She 'd be able to view the whole episode in perspective : see it for what it was , a brief flirtation brought about by proximity , boredom , and lack of alternative company . |
| 28 | They had accepted it for what it was , and never bothered to probe deeper , and she had followed suit . |
| 29 | You 're resilient and intelligent enough to be able to see it for what it was . |
| 30 | The smile he gave her was familiar , full of charm , and yet she was now able to see it for what it was ; totally false and lacking in warmth . |